A Method for Investigating the Perceptual Segmentation of Speech
- 1 April 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Language and Speech
- Vol. 18 (2) , 153-157
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002383097501800204
Abstract
A simple method of investigating the sub-units in which speech is perceived was proposed. The aural presentation of a story was abruptly stopped and followed by a retention interval task which was designed to displace from short-term memory its contents. It was argued that the recall, after the task, of the last word retained would be the final word to enter long-term memory and hence the terminal word of a sub-unit. The results showed that subjects' recall followed a common pattern which appeared to be syntactically determined.Keywords
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